Anytime we use an invention, we typically think of the instrument as one unit. The best example is when we buy computer, washing machine or a car, we do not consider the various components, whether large or small, which comprise the machine. Generally we use the machine while it functions properly, and when it stops [...]
Our world is turning digital in a big way. Take the example of photography. Most of us now own digital cameras that do much more than the older cameras. The old film-using camera is slowly becoming obsolete. When buying a new camera, people are overwhelmingly choosing the digicam instead of the older cameras. The only [...]
The Polaroid Automatic 100 was introduced in 1963 and manufactured through 1966. It was Polaroid’s first camera to use their instant “film pack” technology, a great improvement over their earlier roll style films, and was immensely successful. So successful that zillions of them were sold, and therefore zillions are still sitting in closets and attics [...]
We use our eyes to view things in our environment. However, through time, man has devised ways on how to preserve the things normally seen and thus treasured, whether these are beautiful or not, and one of which is by using cameras. The images that are captured by cameras can make our eyes see things [...]
There used to be a lengthy process that had to be followed when people wanted to develop photos that they had taken on vacation. Of course, this process is still available for die hard photographers that refuse to transfer over to digital cameras and be rewarded by photographs in a matter of minutes if they [...]